Country:Italy

Director:Elisa Mishto

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Summary:

A nurse and three mental patients take turns playing the lead role in four stories told over four seasons moving through crisis, waiting, normalization, and adjustment. Their world within the rooms and hallways of the psychiatric clinic is at once brutally honest, tragic and poetic. Elements of their previous lives and of their current daily adventures are told with the lightness of a fairy tale, but without omitting the harshest and most melancholic aspects of their existence.